[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.